One of our good friends in town, Maya of blog-posts past, lives in a traditional Chinese courtyard home. Occasionally she gets visits from a huang shu lang.
A what?
You heard me, a huang shu lang. This is sort of a ferret like creature who hangs around some of the older sections of Beijing. You can see some pictures of a little one here. A huang shu lang sighting is generally considered good luck and Maya was really looking forward to seeing some.
Then, when Maya and Jeremy were out hiking in the wilds outside of Beijing they also ran into a pig badger.
Again we can hear you say: A what?
Well, this one we had not heard of before, but you can read more about it here.
They got some crazy animals here in China.
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I hear ya!
Try explaining a fisher cat to your neighbors (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher_(animal))
One of my favorite facts is that "All four feet have five toes with retractable claws. Because they can rotate their hind paws 180 degrees, they can grasp limbs and climb down trees head first."
Evolution is a crazy b*tch sometimes.
Karen
Awww, I wish I had seen one of those when we went to Maya's!!
Badger
Badger
Badger
Badger
Badger
Badger
Badger
Badger
Mushroom!
Mushroom!
(Hopefully the Chinese government still recognizes how frickin' sweet Weebl's page is)
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